"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Wit is educated insolence."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970),
"Logic is in the eye of the logician."
- Gloria Steinem
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"In the end, everything is a gag."
- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) 
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
- Katherine Cebrian
"I have read your book and much like it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)